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Posted: 10/13/2021 12:32:02 PM EDT

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The price is an even bigger WTF, how the hell is WV that expensive??

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:32:07 PM EDT

[#2]

Got the 1980's church look , but nice land. House is doable , but needs some severe updating.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:32:41 PM EDT

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Sugar Grove. Isn't that near the NRAO site with all of the antennas?

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Yeah it's overrun with super mutants tho

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:34:27 PM EDT

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The price is an even bigger WTF, how the hell is WV that expensive??

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Huh? Did you skip over the acreage part?

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:35:01 PM EDT

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I like funky houses. My wife does not

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:35:23 PM EDT

[#6]

I'd buy it just for the property and live in the old farm house. Pretty country.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:36:30 PM EDT

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Terribly dated. Property is nice.

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Yup.

Brought up to modern specs it could be amazing.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:36:38 PM EDT

[#8]

Property is so beautiful it makes up for the house.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:36:39 PM EDT

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240 acres will do that.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:37:29 PM EDT

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Looks like a nice piece of land but the house has a shitload of weird things going on.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:37:42 PM EDT

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The funny thing is, a parcel that size would sell for near that without the house on it.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:38:03 PM EDT

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Might have the acreage but hardly any of it is flat. Years back, looked at West Virginia to move to for college since my wife had family there and found any sizeable amount of flat acreage was big money that they were wanting for it.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:38:37 PM EDT

[#13]

Nice property. I just don't think I would want to live within nuclear munitions range of Washington.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:39:48 PM EDT

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Whoever buys that is going to rip out all the wood paneling, paint everything white, and then give their wife the place when they get divorced

Doesn't look terrible but definitely a confused aesthetic

I love wood paneling

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:39:53 PM EDT

[#15]

I like it... OP is a bizarre weirdo...

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:39:58 PM EDT

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Nice property. I just don't think I would want to live within nuclear munitions range of Washington.

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Wind blows the other way.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:43:49 PM EDT

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240 acres will do that.

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Bargain really.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:45:01 PM EDT

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It's a neat house, really, it's just dated styling. That's hurting it worse than the layout, IMHO.

If this house was in Hill Country, TX, it would sell for $10,000,000 as is with that much property.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:45:50 PM EDT

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I'd buy it just for the property and live in the old farm house. Pretty country.

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Ha, I had that thought. It would have moved ten times over without the fancy 80’s estate, just the old farm house. Lower commensurate price of course.

I also don’t totally hate the place. I see a lot of wasted space and I like roominess, less furniture and less decor. I am a less is more guy. If I had the money I could fill up that house with wildlife mounts.

Other than the kitchen and bathrooms I could live with the out dated woodwork. Speaking of the kitchen, they never heard of a work triangle. To go from the fridge to the oven you need two bus transfers. And I like a bigger kitchen and lament mine isn’t bigger.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:46:07 PM EDT

[#20]

Looks like a church inside

Property is beautiful

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:46:15 PM EDT

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Might have the acreage but hardly any of it is flat. Years back, looked at West Virginia to move to for college since my wife had family there and found any sizeable amount of flat acreage was big money that they were wanting for it.

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Personally - I'm getting pretty sick of flat. It looks like that property would be great for horses, atvs, hunting, etc.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:47:49 PM EDT

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This place has been for sale ever since I bought my property in WV. Started out for $1.4 million way back then.

Nice piece of land, but the home is just full of WTF.

The podium thing in the staircase would be a nice place to put a major award.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/430-Aurora-Ln_Sugar-Grove_WV_26815_M33183-06455

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A marble statue of a naked chick.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:48:52 PM EDT

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The house probably was relatively expensive to build at the time. However, it needs some MAJOR renovation to update the interior, and it's obvious that here has been some maintenance neglect as well.

So, for the most part, you are buying the land (which is nice) and can plan on sinking a shitload into the house to make it more modern, and also to prevent further deterioration.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:50:26 PM EDT

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Might have the acreage but hardly any of it is flat. Years back, looked at West Virginia to move to for college since my wife had family there and found any sizeable amount of flat acreage was big money that they were wanting for it.

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If I had that there nice piece of bottom land.....

If I built a weird layout house I would do a villa with a walled courtyard. Two wings of a house at 90 degrees, garage on a third side and a stone wall with an ornate iron gate for the fourth. Or go totally Roman and have a Roman bath house steam building.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:51:24 PM EDT

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Just around the corner from the NSA listening post.

I'd buy it just for the land and tear it down flat.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:51:47 PM EDT

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Whoever buys that is going to rip out all the wood paneling, paint everything white, and then give their wife the place when they get divorced

Doesn't look terrible but definitely a confused aesthetic

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Agreed on all. I like wood features but that is just muddled. I am afraid I would do the same mistakes making ideas fit......poorly.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:54:17 PM EDT

[#27]

No coal mine?

Don't care.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:54:39 PM EDT

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House was clearly designed by cultists for cultists.

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Most def has that look. The stairwell and windows are a giveaway.

Yet, I still dig it

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:54:58 PM EDT

[#29]

That's a little odd but not terrible. I could live there. I've seen much worse.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:56:30 PM EDT

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Personally - I'm getting pretty sick of flat. It looks like that property would be great for horses, atvs, hunting, etc.

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Might have the acreage but hardly any of it is flat. Years back, looked at West Virginia to move to for college since my wife had family there and found any sizeable amount of flat acreage was big money that they were wanting for it.

Personally - I'm getting pretty sick of flat. It looks like that property would be great for horses, atvs, hunting, etc.

Big reason why I moved from my last locale. I hunted two hundred thirty acres of flat grass over solid limestone. When it rained hard I would have to cross 2’ fast flowing deep new rivers for a few days until it all drained off to the lake. It was boringly flat.

Now where I hunt the farm next door I worry about inducing a cardiac event from the hill climb every morning. By the time the season closes I am conditioned to it.....until I sit in my easy chair all winter again drinking scotch and bourbon.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:57:46 PM EDT

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This place has been for sale ever since I bought my property in WV. Started out for $1.4 million way back then.

Nice piece of land, but the home is just full of WTF.

The podium thing in the staircase would be a nice place to put a major award.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/430-Aurora-Ln_Sugar-Grove_WV_26815_M33183-06455

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Reminds me of a house I built on computer CAD in Highschool. I finished early and started throwing things everywhere. I even had a dance hall with floating urinals.

Posted: 10/13/2021 12:59:11 PM EDT

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About $4k per acre without even accounting for any improvements to the property.

Beats the hell out of a million dollar shithole in CA.

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I could swap my shithole in CA for that place and have a less then car payment sized mortgage for price difference.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:01:38 PM EDT

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No coal mine?

Don't care.

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Wrong part of the state for that. May be a limestone cavern, though.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:08:11 PM EDT

[#34]

The pictures are awful. They don't do much to make the house look attractive. The realtor did a bad job on them.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:09:17 PM EDT

[#35]

Shit, around here just the land would be double that price.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:13:26 PM EDT

[#36]

Always just shoot down the middle when building your home, we used lots of gray and yellow colors with light charcoal wood floors for our home in Naples. On the other extreme, two streets over in our development is Jeff Bezos ex wife's house. It is so over the top fucking gaudy, it has been cut from $10m to 7.5M to $5M before it sold..

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:13:51 PM EDT

[#37]

Has a weird cult-ish vibe too it

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:22:19 PM EDT

[#38]

Other than the outdated interior and lack of forced air… I like it.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:22:27 PM EDT

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5 bedrooms and only 2.5 baths is a little odd....if you had enough people to fill 5 bedrooms (normally 2 in the master and 1 in each of the others, for 6 people), can you imagine 6 people all trying to get ready for school and/or work at about the same time in 2.5 baths.

However, there is much to be said for having just over 240 acres in order to get privacy, or have your own shooting range. Yes, house is a bit dated, but appears to be in reasonable condition. I like the large garage with the giant wood shop table. Having a giant shop for either woodworking, machining, or knife/sword forging (or all three) would be really great.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:25:20 PM EDT

[#40]

From a roof maintenance perspective, it's fantastic. Walk right on from the side with no ladder. Plus with the earth that high up the walls on 2 sides, you have a natural bunker.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:27:35 PM EDT

[#41]

wonder if it comes with the cabover k-whopper?

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:30:20 PM EDT

[#42]

(Shrug)

I like it.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:30:59 PM EDT

[#43]

Fire up that semi, get out on the road for a couple of months and come home with much cheddar.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:31:28 PM EDT

[#44]

If I was rich, I'd buy it. Since I'm not, oh well.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:32:19 PM EDT

[#45]

What lowlife used the last of the toilet paper and left the empty roll on the holder?
Thats a deal breaker for me!

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:33:36 PM EDT

[#46]

I’ve seen worse around Pittsburgh

It’s got a nice view or so it seems.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:34:04 PM EDT

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Yeah its not too bad. Change a couple of weird things out, and some updating.

I would get rid of the electric baseboards thou, that electric bill has to be insane.

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House oi s half buried... cheaper than you'd expect if its south facing.

242 acres looks like a church... instacult.

Posted: 10/13/2021 1:35:34 PM EDT

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There is this one in Baker WV, and one out my way (Pittsburgh area) with an earth ramp where you get the lawnmower up to cut the roof where the house goes underground. I sort of like them.